Word: qualitative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the family squabble, Pleasants is certain that "Catholicism and science were meant for each other. In the church we find the feminine element of life in its perfection . . . Yet the church as a human institution suffers the temptations of its state, les défauts de ses qualités: the temptation to timidity, the temptation to rank custom above life and obedience above prudence. Modern science is a masculine element, inquisitive, daring, critical, willing to try the new, yet careless of holding fast to what is good in the old, lacking often in reverence for human nature...
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